Bailey Rally at Fort Worth Reported in Telegram
Telegram received by the Eagle from J. W. Coulter, a Brazos county delegate, states Bailey rally at Fort Worth drew fifteen thousand delegates with J. W. Bailey and M. M. Brooks among delegates at large and pledges totaling 23000 dollars.
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Ft. Worth
the Eagle
J. W. Coulter
Brazos County
Texas
Morning Eagle
Bryan
J. W. Bailey
M. M. Brooks
Jas. L. Storey
A. J. Baker
Texas Railroads Financials and State Office Moves
The Texas railroad commission publishes a seven month comparative financial statement for 36 railroads ending Jan 31, 1908 with freight gross and operating expense changes. Attorney General Davidson supports establishing a state house post office, to be funded from contingent expenses. Governor notes no ranger deployments for Baskin-McGregor liquor law without local requests.
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Austin
Railroad Commission
Texas
Davidson
Day
State House
Mayfield
Texas and Pacific Railway
The
Texas and Pacific
San Antonio
Insurance agent to cancel tobacco policies in Kentucky
An agent empowered to act will notify agents to cancel all tobacco risk policies held by leading Kentucky companies in Louisville Lexington Owensboro and Paducah. The total amount to be cancelled is about 500000 dollars.
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Mount Sterling
Kentucky
Louisville
Lexington
Owensboro
Paducah
Graney Chosen as Referee for Attell Nelson Fight
Edward Graney, not active as a third man since the Fitzsimmons O Brien bout of December 20 1905, has been selected by Abraham Attell and Battling Nelson to referee their fifteen round title bout next Tuesday night in San Francisco.
Mysterious Massachusetts Murder In Arlington Cemetery
The body of an unknown woman with a cut throat was found in a pit at St. Pauls cemetery in Arlington Massachusetts by two boys. The corpse showed signs of several hours since death and appears to be a murder.
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Massachusetts
Arlington
Mass
St. Paul's Cemetery
Mines to shut down in district for sixty days
On Tuesday all coal mines in the Pittsburg district will close by mutual consent of miners and operators for sixty days while contract negotiations proceed. The agreement ends Tuesday and no new contract yet. In Kalamazoo a dam breach damages Commonwealth Power plant. in Cleveland a murdered Italian body found. in Pensacola a young man drowns after being thrown from a horse into a bayou with many witnesses.
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Pittsburg
Kan
Bayou
Pensacola
Fla
Arthur Lathrup
Elgin
Texas
Lathrup
Weather Bulletin Forecast for April Disturbances
Washington reports forecasts of multiple disturbances across the continent from late March to early April. The notes predict warm and cool waves, rising temperatures, moderate precipitation, and regionally variable crop prospects with dry planting guidance for corn and oats.
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W. T. Foster
Washington, D. C
Continent
Pacific Coast
Pacific Slope
Great Central Valleys
Eastern States
Parallel 40
Ohio Valley
Canada
Ohio Valleys
Meridian 90
Maryland
Virginia
Washington
New England
Miraculous Escape Near Death for Bulkely Wells
Telluride Colorado March 28 Former Adjutant General Bulkely Wells narrowly escaped a dynamite bombing at his home. A bomb placed under or near his bed sent debris across the yard while Wells slept on an outer porch unharmed aside from shock and bruises. Wells led labor trouble suppression in 1904 05 and helped prosecute Western Federation officers in Boise. He also helped extradite Steve Adams from Idaho over the miners strike murder case.
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Telluride
Colo
Bulkely Wells
General Wells
Western Federation of Miners
Boise
Frank Stellenberg
Idaho
Steve Adams
Snyder's Close Call at Bronx Zoo Bears and Boa
Head Keeper Snyder faced two near fatal incidents at the Bronx Zoo in one day. First a bear named Jax burst a net and toppled both keepers into a tank. Later, while feeding a boa, the snake tightened its grip as fifteen men struggled and a club was used to free Snyder. He walked away uninjured.
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New York
Snyder
Bronx Zoo
Jax
LAYOFFS CUT NYNH&H SPRING STREET SHOPS TO 25
New Haven March 28 105 workers were laid off at the Spring street shops reducing the workforce to about twenty five from nearly eight hundred when fully manned. The move follows earlier reductions as the shop operates at limited capacity.
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New Haven, Conn
Spring Street
New York, New Haven and Hartford
Knights of Iron Rail Opens Labor Conference in D C
Representatives of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen gather in Washington for a conference that opens tomorrow and runs through Monday. Leaders including John J Hanrahan F F P Sargent T W Powderly Charles P Neill and Samuel Gompers expected to address a pivotal moment for labor politics and possible AFL involvement in the presidential campaign.
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Knights OF Iron Rail
Washington, D. C
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen
Roosevelt
Capitol
John J. Hanrahan
F. F P. Sargent
Immigration
T. W. Powderly
Bureau of Immigration and Naturalization
Charles P. Neill
Samuel Gompers
American Federation of Labor
Congress
Gompers
Organized Labor
Gillette near execution era in Auburn prison for murder
Albany March 23. Chester Gillette faces imminent execution in Auburn prison for the murder of Grace Brown. The case drew national sympathy after trial testimony and evidence. Governor Hughes’s clemency appears unlikely, with the electric chair likely to be carried out early next week. Kurten Educational Rally details follow with a program for Friday April 1.
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Albany
N. Y
Chester Gillette
the Court of Appeals
Miss Grace
Billy
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GEO. A. Adams Insurance
Will S. Higgs
Stevenson Machine and Repair
Estown
Texas Railroads
Kalamazoo
Mich
Commonwealth Power Company
Plainwell
Kalamazoo River
Cleveland, O
Salvatore Guell
West Virginia
Foster
Gillette
T. W. Parker
R. O. Allen
Allen Academy
Vv. Wellborn
A. and M. College
AK National Bank
Parker
E. H. Astin
Albert W. Wilkerson
E. W. Crenshaw
Wilson Grain
Southwestern Life Insurance§Co
Dallas
Tex
Joe B. Reed
Friend-In-Need Society
Joe B.reed
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